As I walked down the hallway of the nursing home, I could hear a patient telling an aide, "I want to get out of bed." In response she said, "It isn't time for you to get up yet." The aid mumbles as she stormed out of the room. The patient laid there crying not knowing what else to do. I thought about that while visiting with my grandmother.
Grandma told me about the care that the residents received. She told me how the decisions of everyday life were no longer a valid concern. She explained, "You get up and go to bed when they say. You even eat and shower when they say. Worst of all when you can't walk on your own, you go to the potty when they say." Her voice to a whisper and her face red with embarrassment she went on to say, " I sat here with my call light on one day for twenty minutes needing help to potty. The young girl came in and was short with me and after a sigh of frustration she told me that I could only go every two hours. Then she told me that she would be back when my time was up. I sat there three hours waiting, not wanting to turn my light on. I had an accident in my pants and she scolded me for that.".
As I was leaving the aide was back with the resident wanting to get out of bed She was now crying because she had wet herself from waiting so long. All the aide could say was, "Would you just shut-up and stop your whining.
I was rather disturbed as I left. I stopped and talked to a family member of another resident. She informed me that they were taking her mother home because of the poor care she was receiving. She also told me that placing her mother in a nursing home, was the hardest decision she ever had to make. Now she feels it was the worst decision she ever made. .
As I started out the door, I decided to get a pamphlet. The receptionist asked if there was a problem. We stood and discussed what I had witnessed and what Grandma had told me. I was informed that none of that should have happened and that it would be investigated further.
The one we are most familiar with is that of physical abuse. Such abuse includes deliberate acts of violence that injure children. ... Another type of child abuse would be that of sexual abuse. ... Studies have shown that more than thrity percent of abused children become abusive parents. ... Children that undewent child abuse may become violent and comit crimes. ...
Child Abuse Child abuse are acts of maltreatment which can result in physical , mental, and emotional harm. ... Child abuse has a wide range of causes and effects. ... Children are the most vulnerable people in our society that causes them to be the most frequent victims of abuse. ... Even then they don't think that their caregivers would violate them in such a manner. ... Parental factors include those that pertain to the immediate family members. ...
Asians in particular are taught that the elder generation should be revered and respected because they are the parents of that generation. ... Like everything that is shockingly wrong in the American society, abuse of the elderly is kept quiet and many cases are not reported. ... The beating is administered by strangers and the elderly and threatened that if they tell they would be killed (this enters verbal abuse also). ... This is often caused by the thought that since the elderly don't contribute to society anymore they don't deserve to be treated as real people. ... Mental a...
Also that same year some twelve hundred children died from abuse across the country. ... The lack of verification does not indicate that abuse did not occur, only that it could not be verified. ... They stated that in some families that there is cycles of abuse that is started and is carried over generations. ... It is believed that forty percent of established cases of child abuse are related to substance abuse. ... That would be grounded in the creation of caring communities that could contribute an effective base for facing the child abuse crisis. ...
How strange, when we recall that the majority of the people living on this earth are victims of precisely that kind of treatment- (Grapes 48). ... It really is sad to think that every single day in the United States three or more children die as a result of child abuse or neglect (Kim 101). ... One form of physical abuse that is very damaging to a child's health is Munchausen's by proxy syndrome, MSPB. ... However, it is not the number of victims that society needs to be more aware of, but it is the causes of child abuse because that is what needs to be stopped. In fact, one major...
Child Abuse Every year child welfare agencies in the United States receive more then three million allegations of child abuse and neglect. Most parents deny these allegations and claim that they were simply disciplining their children. ... In most cases, children will not tell the parent that they are being abused. ... Parents must realize that it is not safe to assume that family members, or friends are incapable of abusing a child. ... In order to positively influence families, parents, and children, it is primary that measures are taken to prevent child abuse from ever occurring. ...
It is definitely necessary that those who sell alcohol should be required to question suspicious buyers more thoroughly. ... Many think that it is a mild drug that should be legalized. ... Cocaine and Heroin are two more street drugs that endanger our society. ... Drug abuse uses society's resources by requiring that hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars be spent on funding enforcement agencies, educational programs and treatment facilities (Plant). ... Drug abuse must be stopped. ...
When individuals use drugs to such an extent that they have difficulty meeting social and occupational obligations, substance abuse had occurred. ... Freud put forth an idea of a death instinct that accounted for aggressive drives. ... Although the treatment of drug-abusing patients follows a cognitive model that is somewhat similar to the treatment of other disorders, there are significant differences. ... Permissive beliefs are those that refer to the idea that it is all right to use drugs. ... Throughout the process of drug treatment, Socratic methods are used frequently, as are other t...
Drug Abuse There are serious drug problems in the world today. ... Drug abuse is real and is a growing concern in schools today. ... Other teens are addicted so bad that they even get high before school. ... Kids think that they are ok to drive but are really too drunk to realize that they are not. ... Substance abuse is a real threat to society. ...
Spousal abuse is defined as any intentional act or series of acts that cause injury to the spouse (Wallace, 2002 p.180). ... Although there are many factors that play a role in spousal abuse the three major ones are: social stress, power and alcohol. ... This approach allows both the victim and the abuser to place blame of violent behavior on external influence that seems to "cause" the abuse (Wallace, 2002). Although it is convenient to blame alcohol abuse as the cause of spousal violence, there are many interlocking dynamics that are involved in both alcohol abuse and spousal abuse. ... T...
